Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# users who program with Visual Studio will be glad to see this new debugger feature in VS2013.
• F# side-by-side rendered Markdown comments in Tsunami are coming soon.
• There is one more app in Windows Store with F# inside.
• Taha Hachana showed HTML5 native video playback.
• FSM.NET 2.0.0 (a simple “stateless” finite-state machine library for .NET, written in F#) was released and is available on NuGet.
• New discussion “FSharp.Formatting for static sites“.

Videos/Presentations

• “Polyglot Architecture: A Rational Approach to Software Design” by Richard Minerich.
• “DDD, Event Sourcing, and CQRS with F# and EventStore” by Leo Gorodinski.

Blogs

• Matt Ball posted “Service Stack, With F# on Linux“.
• Ramasubramanian wrote “The N Queens problem!“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “Viewing function return values in the Visual Studio 2013 debugger“.
• Sergey Tihon shared some posts:
  • “Stanford Parser is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER) is available on NuGet“
  • “Stanford Log-linear Part-Of-Speech Tagger is available on NuGet“
• Phil Trelford posted “Machine Learning from Disaster“.
• Richard Minerich blogged “In Retrospect: QCon NYC 2013 (and a conversation with Rich Hickey on languages)“.
• Michael Newton shared “FsCheck – Breaking Your Code in New and Exciting Ways“.
• Mathias Brandewinder posted ““Summer of F#” Tour“.
• John Reynolds wrote “Adding binding options to Morozov’s WPF MVC framework“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “Indentation for val” was proposed on VS uservoice.
• The first version of F# code formatter addin for Visual Studio 2012 was released.
• Do not lose your points – up-vote your favorite ideas.
• The Extreme Optimization Numerical Libraries for .NET now support F# 3.1 row and column slicing and modules with functional programming operators (mapi, iteri…) for vectors and matrices.
• Visual F# Resources that should be accessible by fsharp.net. 😉
• WebSharper Snippets was released.
• Edge-fs npm module was published.
• Dave Thomas was managed to get Xamarin Studio to debug itself interactively.
• F#+Sage = New opportunity? (Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system)
• FSharp.Compiler.Editor was added to NuGet, this allows access to the F# compilers AST for tooling.
• ReSharper users who also use F# might want to weigh in on this issue.
• Tsunami uses 100% F# for the WPF UI. No C# / XAML layer cake.
• Interactively optimizing trading algos with F#, Tsunami, Matlab and TradersToolbox.
• Script your way to world domination with Minions! A drone fleet management plug-in for the budding dictator F#.
• Why does the F# compiler fail with this infix operator?

Videos/Presentations

• F# in Your Organization with Kit Eason.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Field notes: Coursera Machine Learning class“.
• Buddy James posted “Machine learning resources for .NET developers“.
• Don Syme published “FSCL – Compiling F# to OpenCL for High-Performance over Multi-core and Many-core devices“.
• Dawid Kowalski wrote “4 week challenge – up to speed with F#“.
• Jack Fox shared “Lambda Jam F# Bibliography“.
• What’s new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?
• JaredPar blogged “Immutable isn’t just for parallel code“.
• Ivan Towlson posted “Func-ier and Func-ier“.
• Richard Minerich wrote “On Type Safety, Representable States and Erlang“.
• InfoQ posted “F# Moves Forward in 3.1 Preview Release”.
• Ross McKinlay blogged “Last-Fi“.
• Matthew Adams shared “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Eight – Working With Logic“.
• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “Random Forest classification in F#: first cut“.
• Yan Cui wrote “Project Euler – Problem 60 Solution“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Microsoft MVP – Visual F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “Going Artistic with FSharp.Charting“.
• Gary Evans wrote “Picking with DirectX 11 and Bullet Physics“.
• Natallie Baikevich blogged “Days and Ghost Refinements“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “New Angular.js Option in the F#/C# MVC 4 SPA Project Template“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #26

Welcome to F# Weekly,

It was an adorable week! There are lots of great things happened:

News

• Pre-release of F# 3.1 was announced (reddit)
• From now, Visual F# tooling can be updated more frequently, and independently of Visual Studio.
• NuGet 2.6 was released with New official Microsoft package feed.
• A technical overview of {m}brace was published.
• VS 2012 Update 3 fixes the HintPath bug which happened when you updated a NuGet package in an F# project.
• FSM.NET has been released on NuGet.
• Tsunami Reader – A RSS Reader F# Type Provider. Soon to have more features than Google Reader.
• FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser was announced (available on NuGet).
• FSharpx 1.8.29 was released. Excel type provider works without Excel, very fast Reflection and lots of smaller fixes.
• All F# Stanford NLP samples were updated up to the latest Stanford libraries and latest IKVM.
• There is some plans for a F# SignalR TypeProvider to be used in FunScript. If you want to help please contact @mark_dj.
• Want Alt+Enter to work in ReSharper AND send to F# Interactive? Check out this plugin.
• New idea was added to Visual Studio User Voice: “add support for Windows Store apps written in F# … show that F# can be superior to C# even when it comes to more common tasks like GUI dev“.
• Tsunami IDE was moved from Google Groups to Discourse.

Videos/Presentations

• “Keynote – Scala with Style” by Martin Odersky (Dmitry Morozov  said “Worthwhile to watch for any #fsharp dev. Start at #19 if you’re solid in FP.Key takeaway – I’m so happy to be F#dev.“)
• “1GAM June: FShoot” by Gareth Williams
• “Last-Fi -An F# powered Raspberry Pi internet radio” by Ross McKinlay.
• “.NET Rocks – Functional Programming Panel: Type systems and static typing – saving your ass or getting in your face” from NDCOslo. (audio only)
• “Succeeding with Functional-first Programming in Industry” by Don Syme.
• “Making Magic: Combining Data, Information, Services and Programming, at Internet-Scale” by Don Syme.
• “Clarity of Intent” by Paulmichael Blasucci.

Blogs

• Sergey Tihon wrote some posts
  • Selective crawling in SharePoint 2010 (with F# & Selenium).
  • Confluence/Jira communication from F# and C#.
  • FSharp.NLP.Stanford.Parser available on NuGet.
  • Declarative authorization in REST services in SharePoint with F# and ServiceStack.
• Scott Wlaschin published “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Can I Have Some F# With That?” (Quick post on adding F# support to ScriptCs)
• John Liao posted “Riak CAP Tuning and F#“.
• Immo Landwerth posted “Please welcome ImmutableArray<T>“.
• Yan Cui wrote about “Customizing document styles with FSharp.Markdown.Pdf“.
• Gareth Williams wrote “1GAM June: FShoot“.
• Heather Cynede shared “Building the source without project files“.
• Visual Studio FSharp Team blogged “We are proud to announce a pre-release of F# 3.1 and Visual F# tools in VS 2013“.
• Richard Broida posted “WATK in F#, Part 6: Debugging Applications in Windows Azure“.
• Paul Grenyer shared “NorDev1 Review: Liz Keogh: Lean vs. Agile: Fight! & Phil Trelford: F# eye for the C# guy“.
• Loic Denuziere wrote “XML computation expressions: Playing around with extending the F# compiler“.
• Neil Danson blogged “Types, types, types(A (short) journey through type definitions)“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25

“Design patterns are bug reports against your programming language”

Peter Norvig

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Software Foundation is more and more active day by day. Want to know more and be involved? Join now!
• New beautiful FunScript web site was released!
• FsCheck (an automatic testing library for F#) is joined to the F# Open Source Community on GitHub.
• Nice to read: one more holly war discussion about Scala vs F#.
• Optimized F# reflection methods come to FSharpx.
• FunScript.Owin was announced (FunScript compilation middleware for OWIN).
• Markdown support in CloudSharper was announced.

Blogs

• Piet Amersfoort wrote “Increase your productivity with F# scripts (part 2)“.
• Pierre Irrmann shared “Alt.net Coding Breakfast – June 2013 Edition“.
• Mike Hadlow posted “Guest Post: Working Around F#/NuGet Problems“.
• Mauricio Scheffer posted “Optimizing with the help of FsCheck“.
• Cameron Taggart wrote “Making the .NET Open Source More Open“.
• Don Syme blogged “FunScript – F# to Javascript leveraging TypeScript metadata“.
• InfoQ posted “FunScript: Using the Power of F# for Writing Web Apps“.
• James posted “Hosting Websharper/ASP.NET apps on Linux with Mono + nginx“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming: Carbonated edition“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Is anybody else interested in getting F# a snazzy logo? Share your thoughts!
• F# example usage of TopShelf.
• Some Vagrant provisioning scripts for hosting a WebSharper site on Ubuntu server were created.
• A bit of F# magic in scriptcs.
• “INotifyPropertyChanged Type Provider” was updated.

Videos/Presentations

• “F# for startups” by Joel Grus.
• PlatonTV interviews Dr Kenji Takeda (Microsoft Research) at TN2013

Blogs

• Scott Wlaschin posted “Organizing modules in a project“.
• Daniel Mohl posted “jQuery UI Drag and Drop with FunScript“.
• Matthew Adams wrote “Learning to Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Five – Running a program“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Tremolo“.
• Mike Hadlow blogged “NuGet Install Is Broken With F#“.
• Piet Amersfoort posted “Increase your productivity with F# scripts (part 1)“.
• Scott Wlaschin posted a new series on dependency cycles:
  • Cyclic dependencies are evil.

  • Refactoring to remove cyclic dependencies.

  • Cycles and modularity in the wild. (+script) (hot)
• Phil Trelford wrote “Machine Learning Hands On Session“.
• Phil Trelford wrote “TickSpec dependency graph“.
• Don Syme posted “Does the language you use make a difference? – Code metrics for “functional-first” v. “object-first” code“.
• Yan Cui posted “F# – PDF fun with Markdown and FSharp.Formatting“.
• Serget Tihon blogged “New Twitter API or “F# Weekly” v1.1“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #23

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New home for FSharp.Charting library was announced.
• A new page with the F# videos became available of fsharp.org.
• MS Press published: F# for C# Developers.
• Put up some simple docs for the lazy Matlab Type Provider.
• Updated F# source code formatter (Fantomas) is on NuGet – now with support for formatting selection.
• OCaml is borrowing from F# now 🙂
• Tsunami brings back the Win8 Start Menu as a Type Provider.
• We would recommend F# as an additional tool in the kit of any company building software on the .NET stack.
• WANTED: F# binding for Light Table.

Videos/Presentations

• “Data Science with Hive from Tsunami” by Tsunami IDE.
• “Build Data-Rich Solutions Faster with Microsoft Visual F#” by Dustin Campbell.

Blogs

• Phil Trelford posted “Monokeys“.
• Richard Broida blogged “WATK in F#, Part 4: Introduction to Cloud Services“.
• Richard Broida blogged “WATK in F#, Part 5: Background Processing with Worker Roles and Queues“.
• John Liao wrote “Riak MapReduce with F#“.
• Santi Albo shared “Monads in F#“.
• Martin Trojer shared “Comparing FP REPL Sessions“.
• Ash presented “Tilde, a static blog generator“.
• Martin Trojer blogged “Scheme in Scala“.
• Dave Thomas posted “Monster Zero – Revisited“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy shared “Generic programming in F# – another take“.
• Andras Janko wrote about “jQuery Mobile page reuse with Websharper“.
• Christoph Ruegg blogged “Test Your C# or F# Library on Mono With Vagrant“.
• Tomas Petricek published “New home for F# Chart“.
• Adam Granicz answered to “IntelliFactory: What is IntelliFactory CloudSharper?“

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22

Welcome to F# Weekly,

So it’s summer, but F# Weekly is still with you. A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Please vote for F# support for semantic merge.
• Coding F# on an iPhone. Hosted Compiler Services coming soon! (with Tsunami)
• New portion of CloudSharper screenshots was published:
  • Charts in F# Interactive.
  • Compiling to JavaScript on-the-fly within F# Interactive.
  • Combining server-side and client-side functionality in a single expression inside FSI.
  • Building applications on the cloud using FAKE, NuGet, MSBuild.
• Learn how Microsoft’s Bio Computing Group is using F#.
• The full Lambda Jam Chicago schedule is now available.
• Lewis Brown’s project has been accepted to Summer of Code 2013! He’ll be working on F# refactoring for MonoDevelop.
• $2000 bounty for a TekPub presentation on F# “60 to 90min of what you can do with F# for people have never seen it”.
• FCell Add-In evaluation is now publicly available from Statfactory.
• ExtCore 0.8.23 is out with improved HashMap & HashSet, plus a new LruCache data structure.
• Want to know “Who is reading the “F# Weekly”?”, read this.
• http://razor.servicestack.net/ was successfully ported to Heroku, using F#.
• First preview version of Brahma.FSharp ispublished on NuGet (BrahmaFSharp is a F# quotation to OpenCL translator).

Videos/Presentations

• “F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio” by Neil Danson.
• Tomas Petricek & Don Syme on Processing data with F# 3.0 and type providers.
• “Create Excel User Functions in C# and Visual Studio” by FCell.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder posted “Discretizing a continuous variable using entropy“.
• Richard Broida blogged series of posts in his A Sir Eel World (all source code is available on GitHub):
  • WATK in F#, Part 1: Building and Publishing Windows Azure Web Sites “WATK in F#, Part 2: Deploying an Azure Web Site with Git”.
  • WATK in F#, Part 2: Deploying an Azure Web Site with Git.
  • WATK in F#, Part 3: Using Entity Framework with an Azure Database.
• Valdis Iljuconoks posted “StyleCop, F# and Excel“.
• Don Syme posted “F# London Meetup this Thursday: F# on iPad and iPhone in Xamarin Studio with Neil Danson“.
• Don Syme wrote “Zurich FSharp Meetup: Embrace the Cloud with F# (Wednesday, May 29, 2013)“.
• Juan M Gomez wrote “Reaching the Nirvana: MvvmCross + Xamarin.iOS + FSharp“.
• Phil Trelford posted “Pissed off owls“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 7“.
• Dave Thomas blogged “Some Kind of Monster“.
• Martin Trojer wrote “Scala and me“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Facebook social network analysis with Tsunami.
• FCell evaluation is now publicly available from Statfactory.
• An early prototype of a package / content search system based on Sliverlight PivotViewer.
• Matlab Type Provider now supports vararg in/out and matlab native functions.
• MS has fixed an F# bug: Now you can add F# projects to Azure web sites and deploy them from Git.
• Bunch of talks from flatMap 2013 Oslo were posted.
• It would be nice to have Nancy.FSharp as Nancy wrapper for F#.

Videos/Presentations

• “Developing a Windows 8 application with F#” by Gustavo Guerra.
• “F# Type Providers” by Jonas Folleso.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder blogged “F# Coding Dojo in SF last week“.
• Phil Trelford shared “Modern Art“.
• Phil Trelford shared “.Net Developer – Opportunities to work with F#“.
• Matthew Adams wrote series of posts:
  • Learning To Program – A Beginners Guide – Part Two
  • A step by step guide to installing an F# REPL environment on Windows
  • A step by step guide to installing an F# REPL environment on Linux
• Colin Bull posted “F# 3 and Raven DB“.
• Colin Bull posted “F# Actor: An Actor Library“.
• Faisal Waris wrote “Crypto in a few lines of F#“.
• Stuart Lodge shared “Awesome-F# + Awesome-Xamarin.iOS + Awesome-JMGomez“.
• Dave Fancher blogged “Replicating F#’s using Function in C#“.
• Natallie Baikevich posted “Z3 Mono Starter“.
• Lev Gorodinski wrote about “Domain-Driven Design (DDD) With F# – Validation“.
• The Nashville .NET User Group posted “May 16th Lab: Change of Plans – Intro to F#“.
• The Nashville .NET User Group posted “F# Lab Feedback“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 6“.
• David Tchepak blogged “Why not try F#?“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This past week was full of interesting events and happenings. If you follow F#, you must read all of this carefully. The roundup of F# content:

News

• F# is now available on FreeBSD!
• Matlab Type Provider is available now.
• Does F# need a type-safe data-frame library? How should it look? (Discuss here)
• Ensure you have your say and vote or contribute to F# user voice.
• If you like F#, let MSR know about it.
• Just released a new beta of Tsunami IDE! Excel support back in as are 3rd party plugins.
• If you know any women interested in functional programming, let them know about lambdaladies.com.
• Updated F# Formatting is now on NuGet – with better line-number formatting, tables & Latex support.
• Functional Programming Using F# is available now.
• Record improvements were merged into MongoDB.FSharp.
• Time to vote for the sessions you want to see at DDD East Anglia in Cambridge on June 29th.
• Follow @FCellAddIn to get updates about FCell, integrating F# and C# with Excel.
• Cleaned-up version of LazyList was added to ExtCore.
• Free personal licenses for Alea.cuBase are available.
• The Manifesto for Not Only Object-Oriented Development now in Czech/Danish/French/German/Russian/Spanish.

Videos/Presentations

• “Functional DSLs for Biocomputation” by Colin Gravill.
• “Building a MMORPG with F#” by Yan Cui. (post)

Blogs

• Michael Bayne posted “F# Cheat Sheet“.
• Gustavo Guerra blogged “Building Type Providers – Part 1“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Don Syme posted “F# on FreeBSD“.
• Yossi Kreinin shared “Parallelism and concurrency need different tools“.
• Damir Arh published “Windows Phone 7.5 Application Development With F#“.
• John Liao wrote “Riak Links and Link Walking with F# and CorrugatedIron“.
• Nick Palladinos posted Clojure’s Reducers in F#.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Power of mathematics: Reasoning about functional types“.
• Phil Trelford announced “F# UK ton of Meetups“.
• Richard Dalton wrote about “Learning to think Functionally: Memoization“.
• Juan M Gomez published “Reaching the Nirvana: MvvmCross + Xamarin.iOS + FSharp“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “How to design and code a complete program“.

• Scott Wlaschin posted “Railway oriented programming“.(!!!hot!!!)
• Scott Wlaschin posted “Why I won’t be writing a monad tutorial“.
• Sergey Tihon shared “Live tweets from Alea.cuBase F#-for-financial-GPU event in London.“
• Phil Trelford wrote about “F# Deep Dives“.
• Lincoln Atkinson blogged “A Twitter search client in 10 lines of code with F# and the JSON type provider“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “Three easy ways to create simple Web Server with F#“.
• Gene Belitski posted “If Google would be looking to hire F# programmers – part 5“.

That’s all for now.  Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19